Bradley Joseph
Bradley Joseph is an American composer, arranger, and producer of contemporary instrumental music. He played various instruments in rock bands throughout the Midwest until 1989 when Greek composer Yanni hired him for his core band. He was a featured concert keyboardist with Yanni through six major tours, most recently in 2003 for the 60-city Ethnicity tour. Joseph is the founder of the Robbins Island Music label.
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Bradley Joseph is an American composer, arranger, and producer of contemporary instrumental music. He played various instruments in rock bands throughout the Midwest until 1989 when Greek composer Yanni hired him for his core band. He was a featured concert keyboardist with Yanni through six major tours, most recently in 2003 for the 60-city Ethnicity tour. He appears in the multi-platinum album and concert film, Live at the Acropolis. Joseph also spent five years as musical director and lead keyboardist for Sheena Easton, including a 1995 performance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. His compositions include works for orchestra, quartet, and solo piano, while his musical style ranges from \”quietly pensive mood music to a rich orchestration of classical depth and breadth\”. Active since 1983, Joseph has performed in front of millions of people around the world. Joseph is the founder of the Robbins Island Music label. His solo career began when he independently released Hear the Masses, featuring many of his Yanni bandmates. He has produced numerous CDsDVDs and piano books. His music is included in multiple various-artist compilation albums including the 2008 release of The Weather Channel Presents: Smooth Jazz II. His first show was at the Dallas Star Symphony Orchestra with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in Dallas, Texas in 1995. Some of the early tours of these early tours included Reflections by Croix Croix, which included the St. Louis Philharmonic, and The St.
Paul Symphony Orchestra. He also performed with notable symphony orchestras, such as the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra and the New England Symphony Orchestra, in the U.S. and abroad as Yanni gained worldwide fame in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a member of the board of directors of the National Endowment for the Arts, which promotes music in the United States and abroad. He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and two children. He and his wife have three children, a son and a daughter. They have a son, a daughter, and a son-in-law who is a professional musician and has performed with numerous orchestras and symphony groups around the globe. Joseph has been nominated for Best Neo-Classical Album in the 10th annual ZMR Music Awards for his album Paint the Sky which debuted at #15 in April 2013. He currently lives with his family in L.A. and works as a freelance composer and arranger. His work has been featured on numerous compilation albums, including the Weather Channel’s Smooth jazz II and The Weather channel’s Smooth Jazz III. Joseph’s music has also been featured in multiple compilation albums and on the soundtrack to the film “The Color Purple” by U2 guitarist Dugan McNeill, whose U2-like group was signed to Polygram. He plays piano for the jazz band and choir in high school, and trombone through high school and college. He started playing classical piano at age eight, taking lessons for a year and a half but was self-taught thereafter.
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